[7] The first African slaves were transported to Nicaragua were taken by Gil González Dávila, who purchased them for 300 pesos in Panama from Pedrarias Dávila´s colonial administrator.

So, from 1558, Bishop Lazaro Carrasco, meeting with the Native Americans "almost all consumed" and less than a hundred Spanish neighbors without enough real entries, asked for the King's license to import 600 people of African descent to enslave them, they would remedy the situation, i.e., could produce the earth.≈[citation needed] The number of the first African people enslaved were imported must have been considerable, perhaps thousands.

Since the 17th century, several groups of slaves rebelled against their owners and migrated to other places and settled in small clandestine colonies, free from Spanish rule.

[9] Most “caseros” (derived from Spanish "Casa" -house- i.e., men assigned to domestic service in the homes of Creoles and Spaniards) enslaved African and mulatto people who also performed agricultural and cattle, but were not the main operating system.

Later, in 1832, some groups of Garifuna people came to the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua from Honduras for fighting for their land, to be recognized as ethnic, and to preserve their cultural identity.

However, the Garifuna were met with fierce opposition from the Miskito people, as indigenous of these territories, and of the Creole, who forced them to accept English as the language for business transactions and a half for insertion and recognition in society.

[11] Most enslaved people imported by the Spanish to Nicaragua were mixed during the colonial era and their mulatto and Quadroon descendants also re-mixed with the majority indigenous, mestizo and white.

Black Nicaraguans are descended from the enslaved people who were imported by the British and the West Indian immigrants who arrived on the shores of the country in the 17th century.

The Afro-Nicaraguan population is descended from enslaved people who were exported from places such as Panama, Nigeria, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Jamaica.

[10] The arrival of African slaves to the area facilitated the race mixtures between this group and the natives of the place, the aforementioned Miskito, Sumu and Rama.

[citation needed] The Garifuna came to the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua in 1832 with the same objectives that motivated since its installation in continental America (after the wreck of the slave ship in 1636 near the island of St. Vincent in the Lesser Antilles): fighting for his land, be recognized as ethnic and preserve their cultural identity.

However, the Garifuna were met with fierce opposition from the Miskito, as indigenous of this territory, and of Black Creole, who forced them to accept English as the language for business transactions and a half for insertion and recognition in society, according to research on ethnicity in the Caribbean Nicaraguan, of Silvio Araica Aguilar and Cleopatra Morales (May 2000).

The authors report that "the major contradictions between Creole and Garifuna, despite having the same ancestors of African origin lies in the genealogy of its ethnic composition and thus the result of cultural syncretism" (May, 2000).

Immigrants and Nicaraguan government officials were evicted from their lands by the indigenous Amerindians and Afro-descendants living in them and imposed heavy fines on the natives of the coast.